ARTICLES ABOUT CAR ACCIDENT BY DATE - PAGE 2

Slick roads led to a car accident in Valley Center Thursday. Police say a man lost control on the ice at Meridian and Sheridan. He hit an oncoming pick up truck. The SUV driver went to the hospital with potentially serious injuries. Three others suffered minor injuries in the accident.

A 19-year-old woman is critically hurt in car accident. The accident happened on Southwest 170th near Rose Hill Saturday morning. A Butler County Deputy says she was driving too fast on a gravel road when she lost control and hit a tree. No other cars were involved. The woman was taken to Wesley Medical Center. Deputies don't believe the woman was drinking alcohol before the accident.

A Harvey County infant lost her mother this week in a car accident. The girl's father survived, but is still healing after suffering two broken femurs. As he works to recover, he faces raising a nine-month-daughter on his own. That's why friends and family in the town of Sedgwick are organizing a benefit to help them move forward. "This is where it all started, our friendship back in kindergarten. We've all been together growing up in a small town, you're classmates for life," said Kirsten Liby.

A lizard may have caused a car crash late Friday afternoon. The accident left the driver with serious injuries after he drove into a pole. When police arrived, they pulled the reptile out of the car. Eyewitnesses say the man was speeding before the crash at Seneca and Stillwell. They also say he was slumped over. The sheriff's office says the lizard was running around loose in the car. "I don't believe, they're not an illegal reptile to have. I don't know if that played into a factor.

Derby graduate Colby Liston is back home with family and has started his road to recovery after losing both legs in a car accident. Shortly after the accident Liston took to his Twitter account with a positive attitude. Liston still has the same outlook on life as he shared his story with us from the living room of his Derby home. “I always try to be optimistic about everything and I figured to think about the good things is the best way to be about it,” says Colby.

A former Derby High student lost both legs after a weekend car accident in Lawrence. Eighteen year-old Colby Liston and several friends were leaving a party around 1:30 a.m. Sunday. They were getting into the back of an SUV that was stopped in the road when another vehicle struck them from behind. Liston was pinned between the two vehicles, a police report said. The impact crushed his legs and sent some of his friends falling out of the back of the SUV and onto the street.

This weekend is a major milestone for Nicole Smith. Skydive Kansas in Osage City is her final stop in her journey to skydive in all 50 states. But more than that, it's proof how far she has come in the last year. "I was in a car accident June of last year, and it put life into perspective for me," says Nicole. "I sustained several serious injuries: a broken neck, broken back, 4 pelvic fractures, and a couple of broken ribs. It was one of those moments where my family was told I would never have a normal conversation again because of a couple brain injuries that I sustained from the accident, and that I may not be able to walk again" But not only has Nicole made a complete recovery, she has thrown herself into her goal of skydiving in all 50 states. And the sport that Nicole has developed a passion for has given her a unique perspective. "You don't really have an idea of how high you are until you are standing in the door and looking down. It was just so overwhelming seeing the ground, seeing how high I was. " "It becomes more of a sensation of peace, getting up in the air, and being at 14-thousand feet and free-falling. It puts life into perspective for me, about 60 seconds at time. The little petty things in life, like someone cutting me off in traffic, some small irritant becomes irrelevant almost.

A crash Monday afternoon kills two people in Could County. The crash happened around two o'clock at U.S. 81 and Noble Road. Margaret Hawkins and her passenger Frederick Hawkins were crossing Noble road when she lost control and rolled the car into the ditch. Neither person was wearing seatbelts.

A man is rushed to the hospital in serious condition following a car accident in Reno County. The Reno County Sheriff's Department reports the victim was traveling near the west entrance of Cheney lake. The driver failed to make the curve, and went into a ditch before going airborne, going over two trees. The vehicle caught fire while the driver was trapped inside. A witnesses saw the fire, and pulled the driver from the vehicle. The driver was rushed to Via Christi - St. Francis hospital in Wichita, where he is currently in serious condition.

Two members of the Dodge City Community College basketball team are in the hospital after a crash. The two car accident happened on US Highway 50 in Stafford County Thursday afternoon. One passenger was flown to Via Christi in Wichita. The other was taken to the hospital in Stafford County. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the players were heading east when a truck pulling a livestock trailer pulled out in front of them. 19-year-old Tyler Hosman was driving when the accident happened. 26-year-old Anthony Phillips was his passenger.